Lens vs Marseille Predictions

• Lens have won three of their four home Ligue 1 matches 
  
• Eight of Lens’s last ten games have gone over 2.5 goals 
  
• Marseille have lost four of their previous seven away games

Lens can see success against Marseille

It is three wins on the bounce for Marseille, who have beaten Le Havre and Toulouse in Ligue 1 and picked up an excellent 1-0 success over Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League on Thursday night. 

It has been a welcome turnaround for the Phocaeans, who lost five of their opening six matches of the season, but it is not certain to continue at Lens.

Bruno Genesio’s men lost the shot count 22-11 and the expected goals figures finished 3.10 to 1.54 in favour of Le Havre, but Marseille were able to squeeze a 4-3 success. 

Toulouse put up better numbers when going down 2-0 to the Phocaeans and the 1-0 win at Leverkusen came from only two shots on target and two corners. 

Clearly, there has been a large chunk of good fortune mixed into Marseille’s good recent run and the swift turnaround from Thursday’s Europa League tie is another concern for Genesio’s side. 

It is worth remembering that Marseille lost Mason Greenwood, Leonardo Balerdi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Quinten Timber and Argentine duo Geronimo Rulli and Facundo Medina in the summer and the Phocaeans lack the quality and depth to compete on multiple fronts. 

Lens have to recover from their 9-1 hammering by Como in midweek and clearly that heavy loss is a major worry. However, the Blood and Gold have picked up home wins over Auxerre, Paris FC and Lyon this season and they can be backed to bounce back against Marseille.